The making of life, the making of beauty, has a profound interaction with our happiness, affecting well-being for days.

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• When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.claim0.842
• When you make a beautiful thing, you feel happy for days; when you make something ugly, you may be depressed for days.claim0.833
• Alexander personally experienced that making beauty induces happiness for days, making ugliness induces depressionfinding0.814
  First-person longitudinal observation of the emotional aftermath of making.
• Each person is nourished, made more whole, by making something which has life.claim0.813
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.807
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.803
• We become happy in the presence of deep wholeness; a building with life creates a comforting and profound wholesomeness in those who enter itclaim0.795
  Grounds the practical importance of wholeness in buildings via its effect on human happiness
• The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.793
  The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.